Increasing Student Participation in Undergraduate Research Benefits Students, Faculty, and Department

Autor/inn/en	Wayment, Heidi A.; Dickson, K. Laurie
Titel	Increasing Student Participation in Undergraduate Research Benefits Students, Faculty, and Department
Quelle	In: Teaching of Psychology, 35 (2008) 3, S.194-197 (4 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0098-6283
Schlagwörter	Majors (Students); Undergraduate Students; Publicity; Student Participation; College Faculty; Higher Education; School Psychology; Educational Psychology; Arizona + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Fakultät; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Schulpsychologie; Erziehungspsychologie; Pädagogische Psychologie
Abstract	Little information is available about how departments might improve undergraduate students' access to research experience. At a midsized psychology department (550 majors, 21 full-time faculty), we identified 5 barriers in our existing program (lack of student awareness, unequal student access, poor curricular timing, lack of publicity, and uneven access/incentives for faculty) and implemented 5 changes (application procedures, advertisement, assessment and communication with majors, establishment of a departmental newsletter, and restructured faculty teaching assignments). Following implementation, the number of involved students increased from 40 (11-year average) to 87 (Year 1) and to 117 (Year 2) and number of involved faculty increased from 60% to 94%. Our findings suggest that implementing systematic and programmatic changes may help to increase undergraduate involvement in research. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10